Censoring Culture: Contemporary Threats to Free Expression
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Censoring Culture: Contemporary Threats to Free Expression
By (Author) Robert Atkins
Edited by Svetlana Mintcheva
The New Press
The New Press
17th July 2006
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
363.31
Physical Properties
Paperback
384
Width 235mm, Height 155mm
564g
Description
An anthology of current cutting-edge thinking on the complex issues of censorship and freedom of expression in the arts, journalism, and new media, with contributions from legal scholars, art historians cultural theorists, librarians and psychoanalysts.
Reviews
"We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder "censorship", we call it "concern for commercial viability." " - DAVID MAMET"
Author Bio
Robert Atkins is an award-winning art historian, activist, and bestselling author of ArtSpeak and ArtSpoke. From 1987 to 1997, he wrote a bi-weekly column on art and politics for The Village Voice. Svetlana Mintcheva is the director of the Arts program of the National Coalition Against Censorship, an alliance of fifty nonprofit organizations devoted to freedom of expression in the arts.
